WORLD (MT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

11:30 am

Education of Harvey Gantt
The pivotal story of a young black man who enrolled at Clemson College in 1963, making him the first African American accepted to a white school in South Carolina. The absence of drama or violence surrounding Gantt's enrollment was the result of nearly two years of detailed preparation and planning on the part of college administrators, state politicians and business leaders.G

12:00 pm

Moyers & Company"Putting Political Corruption On Ice"
This week on Moyers & Company, two Americans fighting the good fight against greed and corruption (check local listings). First, David Simon, former crime reporter and creator of the TV series The Wire and Treme, talks with Bill Moyers about the triumph of capital over democracy. ". D

European Journal"Ukraine: Protestors' Right to Rise Up"
Ukraine: Reinforcements from Lviv - Many of the opponents of the government currently demonstrating in Kiev come from western Ukraine. A great deal of the support comes from Lviv. The mayor of Lviv is especially proud of his city. D

3:00 pm

America ReFramed"The Prep School Negro"
uAndre Robert Lee and his sister grew up in the ghettos of Philadelphia. Their mother struggled to support them by putting strings in the waistbands of track pants and swimsuits in a local factory. When Andre was 14 years old, he received what his family believed to be a golden ticket, a full scholarship to attend one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country. D

4:30 pm

Education of Harvey Gantt
The pivotal story of a young black man who enrolled at Clemson College in 1963, making him the first African American accepted to a white school in South Carolina. The absence of drama or violence surrounding Gantt's enrollment was the result of nearly two years of detailed preparation and planning on the part of college administrators, state politicians and business leaders.G

5:00 pm

Local USA"Drive Like A Girl"
"Drive Like A Girl" follows New York's champion all-girls robotics team, The Iron Maidens, just one year after they beat more than 60 male-dominated teams in a regional competition. Though they advanced to the national stage in Atlanta, Ga., they lost before winning it all. D

5:30 pm

Closing The Gap"Skipping Up/Still Segregated"
"Skipping Up" - Set primarily in Mark Twain Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, Skipping Up follows a group of eighth graders as they finish their year in the Middle School Partners Program, a new and highly successful dropout-prevention project that helps students who were previously behind catch up quickly. Students in the program have seen their chances of dropping out fall from 90% to 10% while their tests scores in many cases exceed that of their peers, and it has generated national interest as a model for schools with significant Latino populations. From the PBS series AMERICAN GRADUATE: VAMOS A LOGRARLO! SHORTS. D

6:00 pm

Idaho Reports 2014
Co-hosts Melissa Davlin and Aaron Kunz are joined weekly by political analysts Betsy Russell and Jim Weatherby along with other news professionals, to help provide a firsthand account of the week's events at the Idaho Legislature.G

7:00 pm

African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross"Into The Fire (1861-1896)"
Into the Fire examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction's thrilling but tragically brief "moment in the sun." From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their own liberation, forcing the Union to confront the issue of slavery by fleeing the plantations and taking up arms to serve with honor in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom-rebuilding families shattered by slavery; demanding economic, political and civil rights; even winning elected office. D

8:00 pm

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid: American Experience
In the 1890s, the exploits of Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy) and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (Sundance Kid) and the Wild Bunch Gang captivated Americans by seeming to vanish into thin air after robbing banks and trains in the American West. This film traces their outlaw career and success in eluding the Pinkerton detectives and other lawmen.G

9:00 pm

Outdoor Idaho"You Can't Get There from Here"
This episode visits the town of Roosevelt, now under water; travels into the wilderness on the Selway River; descends into a secret cave; and profiles a wilderness pilot.G

9:30 pm

Dialogue"Miss Representation"
Filmmaker Jennifer Seibel Newsom talks with host Marcia Franklin about making the documentary, Miss Representation, which explores how inaccurate portrayals of women by the media are connected to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.G

10:00 pm

Nature"The Animal House"
From termites' towering metropolises to prairie dogs' underground cities complete with heating, cooling and intersecting highways, NATURE goes above ground and underground on this tour of the homelife of wildlife. Guided by instinct, animal architects have developed some of the most innovative and practical dwellings in the world.G

11:00 pm

African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross"Into The Fire (1861-1896)"
Into the Fire examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction's thrilling but tragically brief "moment in the sun." From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their own liberation, forcing the Union to confront the issue of slavery by fleeing the plantations and taking up arms to serve with honor in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom-rebuilding families shattered by slavery; demanding economic, political and civil rights; even winning elected office. D